#self-surrender

• Self-denunciation — The action by which a person presents themselves on their own initiative before criminal investigation bodies or judicial authorities to confess a crime or an illicit act that they personally committed or participated in, before it is discovered. In structural procedural terms, it represents a cause for sentence reduction or impunity according to the penal code.
• Self-denunciation — The act of self-denouncing and its result; a self-denunciation made voluntarily before criminal authorities before the deed is known to them. This act represents an official manifestation of acknowledging guilt and produces major mitigating structural effects in setting the final sentence amount.
• Self-denounced — Having denounced oneself voluntarily and on one's own initiative before judicial authorities or criminal investigation bodies for committing one's own crime, before the act was discovered by state organs. In a procedural sense, it describes the structural status of a perpetrator who resorted to a full confession to benefit from clemency or impunity.